NORRISTOWN — The final surge of voter registration forms received from the U.S. Post Office on Thursday will keep more than 17 workers at the Montgomery County Voter Services department busy this weekend.

“Seven tubs of registration forms were received from the post office on Thursday,” said Frank Custer, the Montgomery County Director of Communications. “That represents several thousand forms that need to be processed between now and next week.”

The deadline for filing new voter registration forms in Pennsylvania was Tuesday.

“A dozen people from the regular voter services staff are working on it over the weekend,” Custer said, “and five or six extra people from other departments are working extra hours.”

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Friday, Oct. 19, is the deadline for the new voter registration pages to be placed into the voter roll books that are distributed to voting precincts.

“They have to make sure the form is filled out correctly,” Custer said.

The total number of new voter registrations in the county will be tabulated late next week.

As of Oct. 5, there were a total of 549,733 voters registered to vote in the county with Democrats holding a firm majority at 252,730 voters and Republicans at 214,131 voters, according to Custer.

Between the primary election in May and Oct. 5, there were 7,380 new voters registered as Democrats and 4,184 new voters registered as Republicans in the county.

Since the primary election there have been a total of 15,735 voter registrations in the county. The number of new voter registrations for this presidential election cycle was considerably below the record-breaking 34,522 new registrations in the 2008 election.

“2008 was the unusually large year,” Custer said. “This is equivalent to other presidential election years.”